RE: Unable to make Linux bootable from HD or make boot floppy
Hello..
The near.jpg shows that the CD-ROM's ribbon IS attached to the sound
card (it can be seen that the Packard Bell card is a sound one in the
far.jpg photo).
Swap is the one that should be 2x the RAM, while the ext2 filesystem is
the main place where you place your files and such. As long as I know,
the ext2 is the one that should be bootable.
I hope this short info helps you out a bit. I don't know very much
about Linux.. I tried looking in a Debian book I have around about
Matsushita CD-ROM drives but I found nothing about it, so maybe you can
deal with it as a normal CD-ROM drive.. (I don't know about this, but I
think you can try..)
Good Luck
Ronald
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Fickett [mailto:throughtheye@lycos.com]
Sent: lunes, 17 de junio de 2002 20:04
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unable to make Linux bootable from HD or make boot floppy
Hello again,
I couldn't deal with all the various layers of >>>s, so first, for
reference, my initial email is archived at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg02559.htm
l and you should be able to find any others from there.
In response to Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net):
I did open up the case to find out if the Matsuthita was plugged into
the Sound Blaster card, but I still couldn't be sure (though I think
it's not). I did take digital photographs of the innards of the computer
so someone else could check. A view of the whole thing is at
http://SillyFick.tripod.com/zshelfspace/far.jpg and in the same
directory, near.jpg is of the CD-ROM drive's ribbon's attachment point.
The text above the connection there is "PANASONIC CR-5XX CDROM," and to
the left of the connection (not visible in the picture) it says "PAN."
I chose to use the sbpcd driver because the computer (before I killed it
and started making it Linux) told me it was a Matsushita drive, and that
was in the description of the sbpcd driver. And it works (so I haven't
changed it).
>Good. You noticed that the swap disk is 2x RAM? Thought so...
I didn't notice; isn't it the linux ext2 that's 2x RAM? Currently I have
it partitioned:
hda1: 379.98MB Primary Linux Swap, bootable
hda2: 48.10MB Primary Linux ext2, END of disk
Also for reference, I have only 899 cylinders, so the >1023 cylinders
thing with LILO can't be the problem.
>> I've now retried: I did everything the same as before, except
>> with the new paritions. When I try "Make Bootable Directly
>> from HD," there is again the LILO failure. When I try "Make
>> boot floppy," however, I get something new. It goes to a black
>> screen with white text, and says:
>Progress!!
I agree! Still not done, though...
>> Formatting the floppy...
>> Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
>> warmup cycle: x 200xxx 200xxx [replaced by 'In order to
>> avoid...' and the xs are numbers that change]
>> In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the
>> future, add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
>> drive0: deviation=720
>> CAUTION: This line is drive and controller specific, so
>> it should be removed before a new drive 0 or floppy controller.
>>
>> Formatting/Verifying Cylinder 1-80, head 0/1
>If I remember properly, I got the same messages.
>> After cylinder 80, it goes back to dbootstrap and shows
>> me the "creating filesystem on the floppy..." message,
>> and as before fails there, with the "Creation of the boot
>> floppy failed. Please make sure that the floppy was not
>> write-protected, and that you put it in the first drive.
>> Try another floppy if the problem persists." nessage.
>> (Just to be sure, I tried, and the boot floppy doesn't
>> boot. ::laughs:: ) I also checked Ctrl-Alt-F3, and it has
>> the same messages as before, when it didn't write anything
>> to the disk, and just failed at creating a filesystem.
I am currently booting from the rescue floppy, loading the root floppy,
and have also loaded the drivers from floppies - all of which I made on
another computer from the CD (official Debian 2.2r6 binaries, disk 1,
from TuxCDs).
>Network installation is really easy...
Not an option; I don't think there's a card in there, and aside from
that I lack the network itself. Ah well.
In response to Kent West (westk@acu.edu):
I did open the case and check to see what the CD-ROM drive's plugged
into; see above.
The CD I'm using is definitely burned, but at the moment that doesn't
seem to be an issue any more.
>What's the problem again?
The problem at the moment is that I can neither make the hard drive
bootable, nor can I make a boot floppy.
>Does the system boot off the installation CD?
The system at the moment is booting off of the rescue floppy, and then I
laod the root floppy. Since I've already loaded drivers from floppies
and installed the base sysetm (several times) from CD, I now just mount
pre-initialized partitions so I don't have to redo that.
>Does the install work fine until you try to make the hard drive
bootable?
The installation does work fine until I get to making the hard drive
bootable or making a floppy.
>Do you get any error messages at that time?
I get LILO failure error messages when I try to make the HD bootable,
saying "LILO wasn't able to install ... the most common reason why LILO
fails is trying to boot a kernel that resides at a location on the disk
higher than the 1023rd cylinder" ... etc. When I try to make a boot
floppy, it seems to write the information to the floppy in a
black-with-white-text screen, and then comes back to the dbootstrap
screen, gives me a "making a filesystem on the floppy..." message, and
then gives me an error: "Creation of the boot floppy failed. Please make
sure that the floppy was not write-proteced, and that you put it in the
first floppy drive. Try another floppy if the problem persists."
My current partition sceme is
hda1: 379.98MB Primary Linux Swap, bootable
hda2: 48.10MB Primary Linux ext2, at the end of the disk
I'm going out of town, so for about a week (after 06-18-02) I won't have
access to the computer itself, but I'll keep looking at emails.
Many thanks for your time and help (to both of you),
-Mark Fickett
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